The Royal Navy was also present in Halifax with a Royal Navy Dockyard supporting the North American Station. ![]() At the start of the war, Canada had 6000 regular British troops, plus its own militia. It wasn't as if Britain had to storm the beaches of the United States, they'd been in North America and fighting there for a century! Most recently in the North American front of the Seven Year's War aka the French and Indian War. How did they handle the mostly uninhabited terrain. Canada was a British colony and liked it that way. Ignoring for the sake of argument whether Britain was "successful", here are some factors to consider. How did they handle the mostly uninhabited terrain, and the native tribes bombarding them? And how was this feasible at all given that they were at war with France? ![]() Now, I'm not completely ahistoric here, as I know the United States had an extremely small force of men to defend themselves while we were an unimaginably large empire but, nevertheless, I cannot imagine that it simply comes down to superior military numbers and equipment. ![]() There are two oceans on either side, with a navy unparalleled, and an airforce equally incomparable, massive swaths of difficult terrain to the north and south, and hundreds of millions of guns in the hands of citizens, militias, and very large gangs.īecause we reached this conclusion, we started wondering how the British were successful in the War of 1812. We reached the conclusion that the United States was simply the most difficult. My friend and I are from Britain and we were discussing which country was the least likely to ever see a successful invasion attempt.
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